Verlernen: Vom alltagsweltlichen zum erziehungswissenschaftlichen Verständnis

Unlearning has been established as a phenomenon in common parlance, but has been neglected by educational science so far. Very few authors use the term “unlearning”, even rarer is a clear, precise and sophisticated definition. This article starts with the dilemmata appearing when using the term as a category of analysis in empirical studies. The critical re-analysis of one of these studies yet evokes a work programme designed to explore the phenomena of unlearning. As a first step, this article deals with one of these tasks: developing heuristics of unlearning on the basis of a literature review.